Wiktionary:Votes/2006-02/Semi Protection?

Inspired by a comment above, should we not reduce the protection on the main page to semi-protection. With this every one else will. Good idea?, bad idea?, I think good. Gerard Foley 15:22, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Unregistered users will not be able to change it
 * 2) Users who’s accounts are new (4 days old I think) will not be able to change it


 * I love this idea. But I don't know of any way to implement it with the current MediaWiki software.  --Connel MacKenzie T C 19:02, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

It's already a part of MediaWiki and active on Wikipedia, see George W. Bush fo an example. Gerard Foley 20:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, so far, that feature is not available here (not even for testing.) I asked around on Wikipedia and was referred to Brion.  When I tried interrupting him on IRC he blew my request off; Tim suggested it is difficult to implement...but then they were rather busy with other stuff at the time.  Perhaps someone more diplomatic than myself (that's about 90% of this community population) could try contacting the developers to request the "Semi-protection" feature activation for the English Wiktionary.


 * In the meantime, does anyone have objections to me moving the contents of MediaWiki:Nogomatch to Project-Nogomatch so that it can be edited freely? With    as the MediaWiki page's only content, anyone editing would then be able to test it just as easily as I can.  --Connel MacKenzie T C 07:09, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, whomever did whatever, Thank you! Developers have now enabled this feature here.  I'll experiment with the above example in the next few minutes.  --Connel MacKenzie T C 19:54, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Experiment now in place, please try it out. Change bolding or italics or something.  Then we can revisit the proposal at the very beginning of this section: semi-protecting Main Page.  I think such an action should require a vote.  --Connel MacKenzie T C 20:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Everything about the experiment seems to be working as expected. --Connel MacKenzie T C 04:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote: Should Main Page be lowered to "Semi-protected" experimentally?


 * For votes:
 * --Connel MacKenzie T C 04:31, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * TheDaveRoss 05:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Davilla 06:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * &mdash; Vildricianus 12:12, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Celestianpower 14:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * --ex-admin part-time sockpuppetting quasi-vandal Wonderfool 12:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC) Yes please.


 * Against votes:


 * Comments:


 * Action: ] (and templates) are now semi-protected to coincide with the "be bold" replacement. --[[User:Connel MacKenzie|Connel MacKenzie T C 18:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)